On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> writes: >>> One problem with the patch is that it takes longer (at most 10s) to >>> detect the unexpected death of postmaster (by calling PostmasterIsAlive()). >>> This is OK for me. But does anyone want to specify the delay to detect >>> that within a short time? >> >> Oh. Hm. I'm hesitant to remove the setting if there's still some >> behavior that it would control. Maybe we should just crank up the >> default value instead. > > Fair enough. How about increasing the default to 10 seconds? > Since bgwriter has already using 10s as a nap time if there is no > configured activity, I think that 10s is non-nonsense default value.
What do we get out of making this non-configurable? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers